timeline

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  • 1712 – Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine

    1712 – Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine

  • 1771 – The first cotton spinning factory was opened

    1771 – The first cotton spinning factory was opened

  • 1779 – The first steam powered mill began operation

    1779 – The first steam powered mill began operation

  • 1761 – Britain’s first canal was opened

    1761 – Britain’s first canal was opened

  • 1782 – Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine

    1782 – Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine

  • 1801 – Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive

    1801 – Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive

  • 1811 – The ‘Luddites’ began to destroy machines

    1811 – The ‘Luddites’ began to destroy machines

  • 1825 – Britain’s first passenger steam railway was opened

    1825 – Britain’s first passenger steam railway was opened

  • 1831 – The first great cholera epidemic

    1831 – The first great cholera epidemic

  • 1833 – Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire

    1833 – Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire

  • 1834 – Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph

  • 1876 – Telephone invented

  • 1879 – Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb

  • 1880 – Compulsory education for all children is introduced

  • 1883 – First skyscraper was built in Chicago

  • 1885 – Karl Benz invented the first automobile

  • 1888 – Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves

  • 1889 – Wireless radio invented

  • 1903 – Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight

  • 1914 – Outbreak of World War I